Hosting mainly hardcore, metal, and alternative bands, annual worldwide music rock tour Taste Of Chaos exhibits a selection of bands that aren’t really all that huge, but people within that market of music would probably consider them fairly popular. When the tour hit the UK this year, the venue sizes have reduced dramatically from that of last year, with one show on the tour leg decreasing from Manchester Apollo to Manchester Academy, and then degrading once more to Manchester Academy 2. Though, this doesn’t affect the quality of the bands on show for the paying fans.

Sleep All Day, Party All Night is the name of the tour, commandeered and lead by Welsh post-hardcore upstarts The Blackout, and they’ve taken two American-based bands and a fellow UK act along for the ride with them. In the local pub-like appearance and layout of The Irish Centre in Birmingham, it seems like an odd looking place for a band set of this caliber to be playing in, but none the less they intend to party all night.

After Cobra Starship were forced to pull out of their UK tour for September, main support act Forever The Sickest Kids decided amongst themselves that they’ll go ahead and do it without them anyway on their own tour, and from the turn out of the show almost selling out this was a wise move. Manchester Club Academy is almost packed-out with kids, with a fair few using the original Cobra Starship tickets for entry, and they’re all in for a good night.

Not many bands are at a stage where they can hold a headlining tour across the UK, sell most of the shows, and all without releasing a full-length album. You Me At Six however can pull such a feat, and have brought along the bands Attack! Attack! and Tonight Is Goodbye to share the experience.

One of the more epic and atmospheric bands of the line-up today, Coheed & Cambria, may be slightly too technical and a band with songs you need to think about too much for the booze intoxicated crowd on the festival’s Sunday afternoon.

All the way from Alaska, alternative metal heads 36 Crazyfists came along to Donington, and with it not being their first time they should surely know what this type of crowd wants and how they should give it to them. With a setlist containing newer material from their recently released album such as ‘We Gave It Hell’, and older material such as ‘At The End Of August’ and ‘Bloodwork’, the band pull-off each moment of their show with skill and grace, to the point where they almost of the crowd before them in the palm of their hands.

It’s just coming up to the Download Festival weekend, and what better way to prepare than a tour featuring three bands on the festival line-up, appropriately called ‘The Road To Download’. With all three bands; Alesana, The Devil Wears Prada, and A Day To Remember being rather loud and not the kind of thing youâ€™d hear on the radio, you can expect this night to be an explosive one.

Manchester Club Academy fills with what is a sold out show for Reuben‘s first headlining tour of 2008, to promote the ‘TwoByThree’ EP release, split with tonight’s two support acts. With a fanbase as dedicated as the one Reuben holds, you know that any show this band plays is going to be something special in one way or another.

The main act for tonight’s show, The Rocket Summer, sadly had to cancel their performance due to the one and only member Bryce becoming too ill to perform. However, those who are fans of support acts Between The Trees and The Secret Handshake weren’t to walk away disappointed, as they still played… and for free too.

Tennessee pop-punk rockers Paramore have just embarked on their UK RIOT! tour, and decided to bring along their friends New Found Glory and Conditions. After their first show of the tour last night, and their first show at the Manchester Apollo venue, they bring along UK band Kids In Glass Houses to spice the line-up further. An effective recipe for a riot then?